revivalproject

WHO: Tony and fellow 10s exclusively.
WHERE: Heading to the power plant, open to suggestions
WHAT: Tony gets into the civil engineering game, for his own purposes. He has disrupted the grid. Sorry.
WHEN: Now? Whenever you're ready?
WARNINGS: Thread is horny.
SOME NOTES: This is a blackout that I didn't really intend to last very long, but that's up to you. If you want to use it to do some power outage shenanigans, let me and/or Hux know and we'll stay distracted from fixing the problem.

network
[Shortly after all of the power seems to cut abruptly, whether or not anyone noticed or were peacefully asleep in the dark, absolutely everyone receives a direct, private text message at the same time.]
I will fix it. Not a problem.

problem solving
It was inevitable that this would become a problem, but Tony didn't anticipate it happening this fast. There was a whole city out there that, presumably, had been run on this very same grid when fully populated. How was he supposed to know that the entire alien power load was only built to anticipate a single Gamecube and a dinky water display? D.A.T.A. was still smoking in the dark from the surge when Tony wandered dejectedly back into the workshop, no luck fixing the outage locally-- this wasn't a fuse problem. It was everyone's problem.

At least one thing was obviously not part of the same grid; the network hadn't gone down for Tony, and while that was further bad news in the long run, he could take the blessing to try to address the issue before anyone got hysterical about it. He sent out the mass text as he tore the data spheres down from their suspension and meticulously worked in the low light from the simmering forge to feel for the heat and melted warp, and gut the most damaged pieces, leaving them spread blindly on the workbench. That was really going to fuck up his schedule.

He knew where the power plant was, kind of, in theory, and it wasn't a trek he was eager to take without the full light of day on his side, but it wasn't like he was getting anything else done here. It would be faster than it looked, he could run, there was probably a generator up there and the way was going to be brightly lit and not an dark, creepy forest at all. Deep breath. Tony grabbed his jacket and his tool belt and started across town.

Elsewhere, the hum of power had gone silent, lights winked out, and the steady bubbling of the fountain at the centre of the city murmured to a stop, until the surface of the water was still as glass.

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Look at that. Good man.

[Tony clapped Hux on the shoulder as the power plant rumbled back to life, crisis averted, and wandered away from him to get a better look around the room as the lights flickered back on. The engineering data was definitely intriguing.]

So what are they? Kinetic?

[The rods certainly didn't seem hot, or Hux wasn't as human as he looked.]

[Hux tensed slightly when Tony clapped his hand on his shoulder. He wasn't one for physical contact and it often bore memories he wanted to avoid. However, he knew Tony didn't mean anything by it but to be supportive.]

I want to say yes that hey are kinetic, but I'm not entirely positive. I've been running various tests on them to see what they do to help tell me more about this particular source.

You didn't make it?

[He meant the casing, but realized that this was a bigger question.]

You don't even know where they come from.

[A bigger problem.]

Honestly I don't and no I didn't design this. All my knowledge is coming from the delta point and even then it doesn't give a history of how they were created. However, if you're able to provide more of an insight, I'm all ears. Their technology is very different from what I am familiar with.

[Hux explained as he continued to make sure everything was up and running. So far everything seemed to be working and the city's power was being restored as they spoke.]

[All Tony had for him for now was a slightly overwhelmed shrug, not sure how to take learning that this whole place was running on the unknown processing of an unknown element. He did gesture to see one for himself, though a quick visual scan wasn't likely to tell him much about the alien composition.]

Are you married to them? Converting this place into something more familiar might be the better bet in the long run.

[That was a big job, but still worth putting on the table if the alternative was depending on an energy source that couldn't be produced. This brief interruption got enough hackles up.]

What'd you find out? In the tests. Some kind of mineral? That would have to be native, right?

[The parameters of that job, on the other hand, were totally unknown.]

Easier said then done. You need the supplies and tools to do so. Perhaps, I can show you the projects and designs I've been working on at another point in time.

As for the tests? I can simply send you a file of everything I've collected.

[Tony pursed his lips and clasped his hands behind his back again, nodding slowly, knowing when he was being dismissed. It was late, and they hadn't exactly started out on the right foot.]

Sure, of course. Can I take one of these?

[Meaning one of the rods. Just because Hux didn't get enough beauty rest to entertain him didn't mean Tony was going to get to sleep any time soon.]

[Hux handed him two of the crystal rods.]

Let me know what you come up with. The mousedroid will show you out of the Power Plant. Next time there's an issue just contact me.

[As he spoke the small boxlike droid rolled in beeping a confirmation.]

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